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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!smg From: smg@oxphys.physiol (Steve Gough) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: getting mtools working (again) ? Message-ID: <1992Sep15.153830.10336@oxphys.physioloxphys.physiol> Date: 15 Sep 92 15:38:30 GMT References: <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <veit.716109291@du9ds3> Organization: Physiology Department, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Lines: 41 Originator: smg@oxphys.physiol In article <veit.716109291@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes: > In <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes: > > >I've got 386BSD up and running, and installed the binaries > >using the loadfd command when I started. My problem is that > >now none of the mtools (mdir, mread, etc) will work. If I do > >something like mdir a: or mdir "a:" or mdir "a:*.*", it just > >aborts with the error: > > > init: open: No such file or directory > >This should get into the FAQ: > >A non-root user has no R/W access to the floppies. Set the >permissions to 666 for /dev/fd?[a-h]. This, however, introduces >all dirty tricks that undermine security, so a probably better >idea could be 644. I had the same problem after I installed 386bsd. It's not the permissions. The mtools in the binary distribution appear to be broken. mread works fine, but mdir/mwrite/mattrib etc. abort with the above error message. I grabbed the binaries for mtools from the file /386BSD/nova.cc.purdue.edu/mtools-2.0.5.tar.Z on src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftp server and these work fine. As mread works, you should be able get the new mtools loaded if you don't have internet access from the 386BSD computer. The nova.cc.purdue.edu directory is not in the ROADMAP, so this directory might not exist at all the 386BSD ftp sites, but presumably it *IS* available at nova.cc.purdue.edu! Of course, I might be wrong about the mtools in the binary distribution. Steve. -- Stephen Gough McDonnell-Pew Centre For Cognitive Neuroscience smg@physiol.ox.ac.uk University Laboratory Of Physiology tel: +44 865 272514 Parks Road fax: +44 865 272469 Oxford OX1 3PT